60,000 books have been donated by Book Buddies of East Texas to children in the East Texas area with 26,000 of those books going to students at Lufkin ISD. 

Ali Khurshid was named Valedictorian and Anisha Rao was named Salutatorian of the 2019 graduating class at the Lufkin ISD Education Foundation’s Panthers of Prestige banquet last night.

At the May Lufkin ISD School Board Meeting, Allyson Langston and Don Muhlbach were sworn in to serve another term on the school board.

Lufkin ISD participates in the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), a federally-funded program administered in Texas by the Texas Department of Agriculture. Click on this post to see the locations and dates where food will be served.

Drs. Kavitha and Lenin Pinnamaneni presented a check in the amount of $30,000 to Lufkin ISD Superintendent Lynn Torres to be used for the Lufkin Middle School Success Initiative. They both feel that education is the key to future success and would encourage everyone to unite to support our students.

Lufkin ISD will participate in a Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) next school year that will allow the district to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students.

The Lufkin High School accounting team has won the state UIL Accounting Competition for the second year in a row.

Save the date for bus sign-ups for the 2019-20 school year. All bus sign-up requests must be done at the Transportation facility located at 811 South Timberland Drive.

The Lufkin ISD Leadership Academy is a program for teachers, instructional coaches and other aspiring leaders. The Academy develops leadership capacity in participants to enable them to progress as leaders on their campuses and in the district.

2018 Lufkin High School graduate, Cristal Delacruz, received a perfect score on the AP United States Government and Politics Exam she took last year. She earned a top score of 5 on the exam, but was one among 113 students in the world who scored a perfect score according to a letter from The College Board.